This text explores and analyzes the 13000 year legacy of pictures of war from various cultures over the centuries, from Stone Age cave paintings and the monumental sculpture of the ancient Near East to the art of the classical period and the middle ages.
David D. Perlmutter is currently area head for political communication at the Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. He is the author of Photojournalism and Foreign Policy and has published articles in a number of scholarly journals, including Historical Methods, Visual Anthropology, and Journal of Communication.